Across Cultures : A Reader for Writers

by Gillespie, Sheena; Singleton, Robert; Gillespie, Sheena; Singleton, Robert

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780205285068

ISBN10:

0205285066

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/1/1998

Publisher(s):

Pearson College Div

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Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, "Across Cultures," strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. Diversity and the interrelationship General Interest

Rhetorical Contents

(4)

Preface for the Teacher

xix

(4)

Preface for the Student

xxiii

CHAPTER 1 Family and Community

(58)

LUKE 10:29-37 The Good Samaritan "But who is my neighbor'?"

(2)

DANA WEHLE

We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky "This seventy-nine-year-old woman was a juggler extraordinarire, but a juggler's act is both exhilarating and unsettling to watch."

(7)

STEVE TESICH

Focusing on Friends "It now seems to me that I was totally monogamous when it came to male friends."

(4)

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON

from White Tigers "...I had to get out of bating range."

(7)

AMY TAN

Mother Tongue "Lately, I've been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks."

(6)

MAHWASH SHOAIB

"This is what a child's trove of bright and diffused memories is made of--shared words and shared silences."

(5)

JEREMY SEABROOK

Family Values "The first time I met Jagat, I thought he was a bustler."

(4)

AUDRE LORDE

The Fourth of July "American racism was a new and crushing reality that my parents had to deal with every day of their lives once they came to this country."

(4)

LEWIS (JOHNSON) SAWAQUAT

For My Indian Daughter "I didn't have an Indian name, I didn't speak the Indian language."

(4)

DANIT WEHLE

Noah "My life changed drastically when I was fifteen years old."

(3)

EMMA WUNSCH

Learning to Fly "Why do you kids keep listening to this old music? What's wrong with your generation?"

(7)

CHAPTER 2 Gender Issues

(56)

CHINESE FOLKTALE Women "The simplest things is to bottle up your wife."

(3)

GREEK LEGEND Apollo and Daphne "Suddenly, she felt her feet become rooted in the earth."

(2)

PAUL THEROUX

The Male Myth "I have always disliked being a man."

(4)

ROSE DEL CASTILLO GUILBAULT

Americanization Is Tough on "Macho" "The American macho is a chauvinist, a brute, uncouth, selfish, loud, abrasive, capable of inflicting pain, and sexuality promiscuous."

(3)

DEBORAH TANNEN

Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? "Women's conversational habits are as frustrating to men as men's are to women."

(6)

BRUCE WEBER

The Unromantic Generation "Today I'm...a little more rational about what to expect from love."

(11)

FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY

from Soviet Women Discuss Work, Marriage, and the Family "...if they hadn't found `an adequate husband' by the age of twenty-six or so, they'd have a child `by themselves.'"

(6)

BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD

Women and the Future of Fatherhood "Today, marriage and motherhood are coming apart."

(6)

DORSETT BENNETT

I, Too, Am a Good Parent "The law of every state is replete with decisions showing that the mother is the favored custodial parent."

104

(3)

DENNIS ALTMAN

Why Are Gay Men So Feared? "In many societies, the links between men are much stronger than the relations that link them to women."

107

(2)

ANNA QUINDLEN

Gay "At that moment he understood that it would be more soothing to his parents to think that he was a heroin addict than that he was a homosexual."

109

(6)

CHAPTER 3 Education

115

(60)

CROW LEGEND

The Creation of the Crow World "This land is the best of the lands I have made...."

120

(3)

ARMANDO RENDON

Kiss of Death "I very nearly dropped out, as so many other Mexican-Americans have, under the dragging pressure to be someone else...."

123

(5)

JAMES BALDWIN

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."

128

(4)

JOSE TORRES

A Letter to a Child Like Me "Most of all, you should learn that it's you who are responsible for your future."

132

(6)

TOM MOTGOMERY-FATE

The Rain Makes the Roof Sing "God is rain? Is somebody trying to tell me something?"

138

(7)

PAULE MARSHALL

from Poets in the Kitchen "...they talked--endlessly, passionately, poetically, and with impressive range. No subject was beyond them."

145

(9)

TONI CADE BAMBARA

The Lesson "And Miss Moore asking us do we know what money is, like we a bunch of retards. I mean real money...."

154

(8)

LILIANA HEKER

The Stolen Party "As soon as she arrived she went straight to the kitchen to see if the monkey was there. It was...."

162

(6)

DORIS VILORIA

The Mistress of Make Believe* "How many of you are ready to let your imagination take you off to distant mystical lands?"

168

(3)

ISABEL L. PIPOLO

Learning to Teach* "It seemed like a wonderful opportunity not only to learn more about children and teaching, but also to really make a difference in someone's life."

171

(4)

CHAPTER 4 Work

175

(60)

GENESIS 3:1-9 The Fall "You shall gain your bread by the sweat of your brow/until you return to the ground;"

179

(2)

CHIEF SMOHALLA

Herbert J. Spinden

My Young Men Shall Never Work "Men who work cannot dream and wisdom comes in dreams."

181

(2)

MARIO PUZO

Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen "Illiterate Colombos, they dared to seek the promised land. And so they, too, dreamed a dream."

183

(5)

ALFRED LUBRANO

Bricklayer's Boy "What gives you comfort besides your family? Money, only money."

188

(6)

TOMOYUKI IWASHITA

Why I Quit the Company "I was set on course to be a Japanese `yuppie.'"

194

(4)

BARBARA BRANDT

Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours "For many Americans today, paid work is not just a way to make money but is a crucial source of their self-worth."

198

(5)

R. K. NARAYAN

Forty-five a Month "There shouldn't be anything more urgent than the office work; go back to your seat."

203

(6)

LALITA GANDBHIR

Free and Equal "He was convinced that he would not get a job if Americans were available...."

209

(8)

MICHAEL GNOLFO

A View of Affirmative Action in the Workplace* "The time is right for another step in the evolution of American society."

217

(3)

SHARON Y. FRIEDNER

Procrastination* "Procrastination is the ability to look time in the eye and laugh."

220

(3)

BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Jasmine "He wasn't like a professor, not the ones back home where even high school teachers called themselves professors and acted like little potentates, He wore blue jeans...."

223

(12)

CHAPTER 5 Traditions

235

(64)

AFRICAN LEGEND In the Beginning: Bantu Creation Story "In the beginning, in the dark, there was nothing but water."

240

(1)

QUICHE-MAYAN LEGEND

Quiche-Mayan Creation Story "Before the world was created, Calm and Silence were the great kings that ruled."

241

(3)

JOHN KING FAIRBANK

Footbinding "...it was certainly ingenious how men trapped women into multilating themselves..."

244

(7)

JACOB GRIMM

WILHELM GRIMM

Cinderella "...the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her..."

251

(7)

NATIVE AMERICAN MYTH The Algonquin Cinderella "...the wicked sister would burn her hands and feet with hot cinders..."

258

(4)

TONI MORRISON

Cinderella's Stepsisters "I am alarmed by the violence that women do to each other: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence."

262

(3)

N. SCOTT MOMADAY

The Way to Rainy Mountain "Her name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America."

265

(6)

YAEL YARIMI

Seven Days of Mourning(*) "...I find myself torn apart between the home I am trying to establish with my American husband, and the great, rich and embracing tradition I have left in my land of birth."

271

(5)

SALMAN RUSHDIE

from Imaginary Homelands "It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity."

276

(5)

JEANETTE DELPONTE

Christmas Memories* "They sat there like so many shimmering jewels catching the shafts of light streaming through a window high above the table."

281

(3)

SHIRLEY JACKSON

The Lottery "...the whole lottery took less than two hours,...to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner."

284

(8)

MARK FINEMAN

Stone-Throwing in India: An Annual Bash "I have seen people with eyes bulging out, ears sheared off, noses broken, teeth shattered, skulls and legs fractured to bits."

292

(7)

CHAPTER 6 Cultural Encounters

299

(58)

SENEGALESE MYTH The Falsehood of Truth "Go tell the king that a man is here who can raise people from the dead."

304

(3)

Moses Gaster

JEWISH FOLKTALE The Wise Rogue "On the way to the gallows he said to the governor that he knew a wonderful secrel, and it would be a pity to allow it to die with him..."

307

(2)

JAY FORD

20/20 Hindsight* "The more knowledge I attained of Kenya and the more I left my English at home and spoke Swahili or another tribal language, the more cultural doors opened to me."

309

(8)

JIM FUSILLI

Becoming American, by Degrees "The idea of American character came to me as it did to most people of my age: through the mass media."

317

(6)

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ

Does America Still Exist? "Children of immigrant parents are supposed to pearch on a hyphen between two countries."

323

(5)

TANEISHA GRANT

To Speak Patois* "At fourteen years old, I thought I knew everything there was to know about everything worth knowing--life, people, and relationships."

328

(4)

LINDA STANLEY

Passion and the Dream "They have come from so far with so many dreams to this city. the possessors of the same brave American Dream that all immigrants to America have dreamed."

332

(4)

BRENT STAPLES

Black Men and Public Spaces "My first victim was a woman--white, well dressed, probably in her early twenties."

336

(5)

MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN

Of My Friend Hector and My Achilles' Heel "This story is about prejudice and stupidity. My own."

341

(4)

JUDITH ORTIZ COFER

Silent Dancing "...for years, I've had dreams in the form of this home movie."

345

(12)

CHAPTER 7 Choices

357

(52)

SWAHILI FOLKTALE

The Wise Daughter "Eat, you three fools."

361

(2)

PANOS IOANNIDES

Gregory "The right thing is to save your skin. That's only logical."

363

(5)

HANA WEHLE

The Impossible Became No Longer Unthinkable "Auschwitz--a landscape so alienated from any culture ever known--seemed to be the end of the road for the three of them."

368

(10)

JOSEPH STEFFAN

Honor Bound "And I firmly believe that if I had been willing to lie about my sexuality to deny my true identity, I would have been allowed to graduate."

378

(5)

PETE HAMILL

Winning Isn't Everything "Winning isn't the only thing in love, art, marriage, commerce, or politics, it's not even the only thing in sports."

383

(5)

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ

To the Border "They were men without women. They were Mexicans without Mexico."

388

(6)

MARCUS MABRY

Living in Two Worlds "Living in my grandmother's house this Christmas break restored all the forgotten, and the never acknowledged, guilt."

394

(3)

RAMON "TIANGUIS" PEREZ

The Fender-Bender "`If you'd rather, we can report him to Immigration, `the cop continues."

397

(4)

NADINE GORDIMER

The Moment Before the Gun Went Off "The moment before the gun went off was a moment of high excitement shared through the roof of the cab, as the bullet was to pass, between the young black man outside and the white farmer inside the vehicle."

401

(8)

CHAPTER 8 Popular Culture

409

(56)

ANNE NORTON

The Signs of Shopping "Shop windows employ elements of sarcasm and irony, strategies of inversion and allusion."

416

(7)

CHRISTOPHER HEDGES

Traditional Ramadan Radio Tales Give Egypt a Medium for Its Message "The militants, who denounce the serials, have threatened many of the writers, actors and directors involved, and some of them now have bodyguards."

423

(4)

AMY BRUCKMAN

Christmas Unplugged "The network destroys a sense of time as well as place."

427

(3)

SYLVESTER MONROE

Hollywood: The Dark Side "Television's biases are so blatant that media scholars and the few outspoken activists within the industry are becoming increasingly vocal in calling for change."

430

(6)

BENJAMIN DEMOTT

Class Struggle in Hollywood "Treating class differences as totally inconsequential strengthens the national delusion: that class power and position are insignificant."

436

(6)

EMMA WUNSCH

Closer to Fine: My Parents' Music and Mine* "I had so many questions and the Indigo Girls were the first band that seemed to have questions too."

442

(5)

JAY FORD

What Is Hip Hop? "...Hip Hop is a historical journal of people who are often left out of white American historical texts."

447

(5)

EMILY HEGARTY

Really Cool: Authenticity, Identity, and Popular Music* "Like blues music, country music appeals to authenticity, to hardscrable hillibilly buts in Appalachia, and to being a coal miner's daughter

452

(7)

STEPHEN KING

Why We Crave Horror Movies "If we are all insane, the sanity becomes a matter of degree."

459

(6)

Rhetorical and Cultural Glossary

465

(6)

Geographical Index

471

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